Show Notes 

• In this potpourri episode, Josh wrestles with Microsoft Corporation, Ben goes camping on Tatooine, Josh has another fast food disaster, the AWS outage turns smart beds into panini presses (#aboringdystopia), join in on the 2025 Disney Baddie Showdown, and hang in there for the first ever post-credits scene in Podcast history. 
• Intro & Follow-up (0-27:03)
  • Building the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) 
  • How a U.S. Nuclear Strike Actually Works 
  • This Star Wars-Themed Desert Outpost in Utah Is As Strange As It Sounds – Outside Magazine 
  • SNAP (Food Stamps) runs out of money Nov 1. States are figuring out how to feed millions of people 
• Bad at tech (27:03-1:08:11)
  • Windows 10 End of Life 
  • 2025 Amazon Web Services (AWS) US-EAST-1 outage: “It’s always DNS”
    • …which caused a Luxury Smart Bed malfunction 
• Disney Baddie Showdown (1:08:11-1:16:26)
  • Check out the Disney Baddie Showdown on our Subreddit 
• Bad at Drive-Thru (1:16:26-1:32:08) 
• What I’m Reading (1:32:08-end)
  • READ FOR NEXT TIME:
    • Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup – John Carreyrou 
  • Lay’s drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn’t know their chips were made out of potatoes 
  • Enlightenment Now: The Case for reason, science, humanism, and progress (2018) 
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  • Outro music from Cascading by Ammon Rich